Lash wrote:Consider Perplexed, if you will, and also maybe that Raul-7 guy.
Both Muslims.
Are they the same?
No.
Lash wrote:Don't we view each person <Muslim> differently?
I'd hope so.
Lash wrote:If you are anti-Muslim, you'd have to be a bigot. You'd be judging all by one stereotype.
However, if you are anti-Islam, you'd be against an ideology....
How would you address that?
Well, there's two possibilities I see from the top of my head here.
1) One is anti-Islam. There's a comma-period implied here; if you are anti-Islam, rather than, say, anti-Islamism or anti-fundamentalism, then you apparently consider the whole religion in
itself to be the problem, not just some interpretation or current or other.
2) One accepts that each Muslim experiences and "enacts" Islam differently; and that some of those ways are highly harmful whereas other such ways are harmless.
That would however imply that Islam
can, apparently, be a harmless force - depending on how its interpreted/used.
If one accepts that there are Muslims who experience and implement their belief in Islam in a harmless, possibly even benefitial way, then how can one still be anti-
Islam, rather than just anti-dogmatist/fundamentalist Islam?
